Social Reformer Quotes

“Give Me A Keyboard,
I'll Give You Revolution
(The Sonnet)

I just want to write -
that's all I ever want -
to write, write and write!
The day the words stop coming,
will be my last corporeal night.

Either I shall die by an assassin's bullet,
or I shall die on my keyboard,
but I refuse to die of old-age and disease.
Death scares those who are scared of life,
I have already lived my life in service.

I live on keyboard, I'll die on keyboard,
Keyboard is my instrument of illumination.
Nothing short could satisfy my palate -
Give me a keyboard, I'll give you revolution.

With my keyboard I've defended the meek,
With my keyboard I've castrated the pricks.
With my keyboard I've brought down dictators,
With my keyboard I've schooled bigoted pigs.

With my keyboard I've raised Gods by hundreds,
With my keyboard I've delivered world-builders.
With my keyboard I've produced hatebusters,
With my keyboard I've raised bulldozers.

Death is but a myth - body dies, not bulldozer;
Body is merely a vessel for the mission.
If you want your ideas to live forever,
You gotta sacrifice your life for a vision.

I never lived as body, but only as a dream -
My life is testament to the dream of united earth.
I don't have a message, for I am the message -
Sacrifice is beacon, that illuminates the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“There's a terrorist in all of us,
as well as a transformer.
Decision is totally yours,
Wreak havoc or rise a reformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Thousand Naskars (The Sonnet)

When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Cowards seek comfort in reincarnation,
While the brave step in to fill the void.

Don't you dare make a cult of me,
Waiting for yet another second coming!
Reclaim your life from the land of myths,
Wishful inaction is most unbecoming.

Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.

When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Naskar the person died a long time ago,
What speaks to you is Naskar the oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Reformer holds no allegiance to ideology,
Reformer holds no allegiance to culture.
Reformer doesn't have such primitive luxury,
Reformer's sight draws the humanitarian picture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“With my keyboard I've defended the meek,
With my keyboard I've castrated the pricks.
With my keyboard I've brought down dictators,
With my keyboard I've schooled bigoted pigs.

With my keyboard I've raised Gods by hundreds,
With my keyboard I've delivered world-builders.
With my keyboard I've produced hatebusters,
With my keyboard I've raised bulldozers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Be a swan amidst swine,
Be water amidst wine.
When all be walking veggies,
Unleash your upright spine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“I don't care if my blood courses through your veins, I only care whether my ideas electrify your nerves. I don't give a damn if I leave no bloodly offspring, my sole objective is to leave behind godly bravehearts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“You are the eyeway to illumination,
You are the spineway to invigoration.
You are the headway to inspiration,
You are the heartway to assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Burn my books, and go lift the world!
Let me live in your blood, not in books.
Fetch your nerves and wield your backbone,
You are the cure to the paradigm of crooks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I live as lamp to the world not another lamb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“A 20 watt brain electrifies the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Unwrite Me, You Cannot (Sonnet 1949)

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
no matter how much you try, you cannot unwrite me.
My childhood friends are now parents to children,
while I stand alone as the keeper of humanity.

Even the woman I once dreamt a life with, is now
a mother, yet my struggle continues for eternity.
May they all have a full and flourishing life,
but mine is to die as the lampbearer of liberty.

I took the road less travelled, of my own accord,
so the marginalized could have some tranquility.
There's nothing groundbreaking in a life of comfort,
we break ground by being antidote to animosity.

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
try all you like, unwrite me, you cannot.
You can pin me to the ground or on the wall,
but unsee, unhear, unwrite me, you cannot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“The question is not, how much can I enjoy, but how much can I endure to lift up the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Early Naskar unraveled the brain, Mid Naskar delivered backbone, Late Naskar is pilgrim of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I take care of the world as my family, and someone somewhere will take care of my immediate family when I am not there, that's the kind of blind illogical faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent, so I became the precedent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I look after the world as family, so the world may look after my family, when I'm not there - that's the kind of blind faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Existence lived in service of others, is existence that outlives the entity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm exhausted, I want to sleep, but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep, I might not wake up - so I toil, till the soil is human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm A Mad Monk (Sonnet 2702)

I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.

I'm exhausted, I want to sleep,
but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep,
I might not wake up -
so I toil, till the soil is human.

Soy un monje loco,
no volveré al paraíso -
o la tierra es de todos,
o ilegales todos somos.

The world ain't mine,
the world ain't yours -
either earth belongs to all,
or we are all illegal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“By the time I'm finished with religion, religion would be more allergic to superstition and prejudice than science. By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Cleansed of all newage gullibility,
immunized against organized bigotry,
neither vegetable nor animal,
cometh the call, cometh the tsunami.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Show me love, I’ll respond with a quiet smile – throw me hate, I’ll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Either you build reputation or you build civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskar Goes to Earth (2745-2746)

I was born of flesh,
and given the name Naskar,
I outgrew the rule of flesh,
but kept the name as token.

Flesh and name are both just shell,
both have a role, but none is sovereign.
Submit to flesh, and monkeys run amok,
worship the name, and stagnation sets in.

I was born of ash,
I lived as electricity,
I'll end in ash, and someone
somewhere will carry my insanity.

I don't want you to inherit my belief,
I don't even want you to inherit my ideas,
if there is one thing I want you to inherit,
it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.

If you're sufficiently dutybound to humanity,
like a living, breathing human being should be,
you'd inadvertently develop the same ideas,
even if you haven't read a single leaf of me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't want you to inherit my belief, I don't even want you to inherit my ideas, if there is one thing I want you to inherit, it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Braver than nuclear, I'm neurochemical warfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Educated on the streets, enlightened in the soil, my role on earth is to inject the brains with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace